Revenge of Riff Raff

Album Review: "Welcome to the Ball," Vicious Rumors

October 04, 2020 Add Comment Edit

It is my guess that Power Metal fans who like their Rock served up wailing, punchy, produced, and with fast-paced Thrash overtones will e...

CRUE'L TO BE KIND

October 03, 2020 Add Comment Edit

From the Stargazer column (Star date: April 1992) It has been made public that Vince Neil has left Motley crue due to differences in musical...

Album Review: Vince Neil, "Exposed"

October 03, 2020 Add Comment Edit

From the initial assault of Look In Her Eyes , it's plain that Vince is out to take no prisoners. In linking up with guitarist Steve St...

Interview: Janick Gers, Iron Maiden

September 26, 2020 Add Comment Edit

THE METAL MONSTER PLOUGHS AHEAD BY PUTTING EGOS ON HOLD With Iron Maiden, what you see is what you get — a reassuring thought for the ...

Album Review: "Code Selfish," The Fall

September 26, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Despite a couple of imaginative lyrics and a few interesting samples, Code Selfish never rises above a level of turgid dullness. Wallowing...

Interview: Gary Brooker & Matthew Fisher, Procul Haram

September 24, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Parisian Walkways Mike Harris flies out to gay Paris to catch Procol Harum on the last date of their current European jaunt, and discovers t...

ALBUM REVIEW: "RAISE YOUR FIST AND YELL," ALICE COOPER

September 22, 2020 Add Comment Edit

I felt like a giddy 12 year old after re-buying Alice Cooper’s long forgotten, totally overlooked 1987 album Raise Your Fist and Yell , ...

Live Review: Cathedral, Shibuya Quattro, 20th April, 2011

September 15, 2020 Add Comment Edit

When I interviewed Lee Dorian of Cathedral a few weeks back in the immediate aftermath of the Great Tohoku Kanto Earthquake, he was sti...

Riff Raff, the Legend!

September 14, 2020 Add Comment Edit

2011 rockumentary focusing on the legend that is Riff Raff. Featuring contributions from Mark Crampton, Mark Liddell, Billy Kulke, Coli...

Interview: Akihito Morimoto, Kazuto Maekawa, Electric Eel Shock

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Stories occasionally filter back about Japanese bands making a go of it abroad. Following the success of New York’s alternative hip-hop...

Album Review: "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables," Dead Kennedys

September 03, 2020 Add Comment Edit

Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables , the debut LP from Dead Kennedys, came out 40 years ago today. It's a darn good record, but...

The Fly Column: Eddie Vedder Tosses Off With 'Save The Sperm' Campaign

September 03, 2020 Add Comment Edit

That champion of lost, er, great causes, Eddie Vedder is at it again, spearheading the 'Save the Sperm' campaign. Actually it...

RIFF RAFF 4.0 (ISSUE 7)

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Estimated date of publication December 1995. By this time, the by-lines had disappeared -- as had most of the writers. The magazine wa...

Album Review: "Point of Entry," Judas Priest

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Priest's 1981 album Point of Entry , their seventh, is usually viewed as a dip in quality after British Steel (1980) . I concur. Yo...

Live Review: Dare, The Astoria 18th October, 1989

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Mancunian act Dare are pretty new on the live circuit. Up to date they have headlined numerous club shows following an extremely succe...

KISS Immortalised in Japanese Art (Not by Their Music, LOL)

August 05, 2020 Add Comment Edit

In this episode of the Kong Show, a special treat for KISS fans. Elizabeth Hilderbrand talks to Kamasami Kong about the Ukiyo-e Proje...

Album Review: Dare, "Blood From Stone"

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In 1988 DARE scored a Top Ten hit in my personal long-playing chart with their debut offering, Out Of The Silence . With this new relea...

Interview: Dan Reed, Dan Reed Network

July 25, 2020 Add Comment Edit

THERE ARE NO RULES IN ROCK N' ROLL Funk n' roll gods, and personal faves, Dan Reed Network have been invited to support ...

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!